Monday, 24 July 2017

675. Instant Pot Corn Potato Cheddar Soup

Amazing Gadgets

Whenever I'm at my son's place in Montreal, the first few days go into cleaning his place. Out of all my three kids he's probably the one with the most gadgets. Home cleaning becomes an easier task and love that our clothes do not have that awful damp smell. The wonders of a clothes dryer. His kitchen too is equipped with some of the best and powerful appliances. Every visit and we add a new gadget. This time round I was appalled at the state of our very useful pressure cooker. The bottom no longer sits well on the hob and I just don't want to get you into the colour of the poor pressure cooker. So I insisted that we buy an Instant Pot as anyway I'd read so much about it and a few bloggers even use it regularly. In a small kitchen we need gadgets that are multi functional. So the Instant Pot fits that description. I would recommend an Instant Pot anytime. However, don't think I'll get one for my home in Mombasa because of the frequent power cuts and power fluctuations. However, here it works like a charm. I had put some tuvar dal on the slow cooker mode and gone to the market. When we got back home after 3 hours the dal was cooked. I cook rice in it frequently because its also a rice cooker. Saute some dry sabji or a sabji with gravy. No noisy whistles and the best think is that it does not generate heat like a hob, grill or oven does. You can steam stuff in it so next recipe to try is dokhra in the Instant Pot. Can put eggs to boil and don't have to worry about water getting over. It all works on a timer. As soon as the time is over, the Instant Pot goes into the warm mode. The options are endless. When Preethi who blogs at Preethi's Cuisine suggested #Fireless Cooking as our 102th theme for FoodieMonday/ Bloghop group, I knew what I wanted to show off... my new Instant Pot :) As my son is reading my post as I'm typing, he comments ' you could have blogged anything your cook here as its all fireless!' My reply ' yes I know but I so want to show off my Instant Pot'. He walked away with a quizzical look on his face and must be thinking that I'm crazy :0 I made some soup in the Instant Pot. It was ready within 15 minutes. Check out the recipe for a quick and filling soup.

Thanks Sujata. Instant Pot is like a pressure cooker without the noise. It works like a rice cooker too and has so many other functions like you can saute, boil, steam and also use it as a slow cooker.

Isn't the instant pot amazing? I love the way you have made the delicioussoup using all it's functions!! No wonder so many of my American friends take it on their motoring holidays as they can cook something quick in their hotel rooms!! What filling have you used in your rolls? They look amazing too!

Thanks Mina.. as the theme was fireless cooking, I thought of getting to know my instant pot more;) I stuffed the rolls with potato, peas, carrot, onion and coriander stuffing... the kind we make for masala sandwich or samosa stuffing.

Monday, 24 July 2017

675. Instant Pot Corn Potato Cheddar Soup

Amazing Gadgets

Whenever I'm at my son's place in Montreal, the first few days go into cleaning his place. Out of all my three kids he's probably the one with the most gadgets. Home cleaning becomes an easier task and love that our clothes do not have that awful damp smell. The wonders of a clothes dryer. His kitchen too is equipped with some of the best and powerful appliances. Every visit and we add a new gadget. This time round I was appalled at the state of our very useful pressure cooker. The bottom no longer sits well on the hob and I just don't want to get you into the colour of the poor pressure cooker. So I insisted that we buy an Instant Pot as anyway I'd read so much about it and a few bloggers even use it regularly. In a small kitchen we need gadgets that are multi functional. So the Instant Pot fits that description. I would recommend an Instant Pot anytime. However, don't think I'll get one for my home in Mombasa because of the frequent power cuts and power fluctuations. However, here it works like a charm. I had put some tuvar dal on the slow cooker mode and gone to the market. When we got back home after 3 hours the dal was cooked. I cook rice in it frequently because its also a rice cooker. Saute some dry sabji or a sabji with gravy. No noisy whistles and the best think is that it does not generate heat like a hob, grill or oven does. You can steam stuff in it so next recipe to try is dokhra in the Instant Pot. Can put eggs to boil and don't have to worry about water getting over. It all works on a timer. As soon as the time is over, the Instant Pot goes into the warm mode. The options are endless. When Preethi who blogs at Preethi's Cuisine suggested #Fireless Cooking as our 102th theme for FoodieMonday/ Bloghop group, I knew what I wanted to show off... my new Instant Pot :) As my son is reading my post as I'm typing, he comments ' you could have blogged anything your cook here as its all fireless!' My reply ' yes I know but I so want to show off my Instant Pot'. He walked away with a quizzical look on his face and must be thinking that I'm crazy :0 I made some soup in the Instant Pot. It was ready within 15 minutes. Check out the recipe for a quick and filling soup.

Thanks Sujata. Instant Pot is like a pressure cooker without the noise. It works like a rice cooker too and has so many other functions like you can saute, boil, steam and also use it as a slow cooker.

Isn't the instant pot amazing? I love the way you have made the delicioussoup using all it's functions!! No wonder so many of my American friends take it on their motoring holidays as they can cook something quick in their hotel rooms!! What filling have you used in your rolls? They look amazing too!

Thanks Mina.. as the theme was fireless cooking, I thought of getting to know my instant pot more;) I stuffed the rolls with potato, peas, carrot, onion and coriander stuffing... the kind we make for masala sandwich or samosa stuffing.

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Mayuri Patel

My name is Mayuri Patel. I live in Mombasa and am the blogger for Mayuri's Jikoni. I love cooking and trying out new recipes. Born and brought up in Kenya, studied in India means that my recipes are influenced by both the countries.